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How to Pierce Potato with a Straw

Pre-K - 8th
We are experimenting by piercing a potato with a sharp pencil and a straw. Do you know what would pass through easily?
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How to Mix Primary Colours to Get Secondary Colours

Pre-K - 8th
A fun demonstration how the primary colours mix and form the secondary colours. Thanks to the fact that water doesn't mix with oil we can observe how primary colours separate back into layers after mixing. For this activity water is...
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How to Melt Crayons in Molds

Pre-K - 8th
It's finally the time to melt our old mixed crayons to make new multicoloured star-shaped ones.
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How to Make Your Own Books

Pre-K - 8th
For about a week Alex was making books. We have plenty of them now. One book is about everything mommy loves. There is an educational one with tests, tracing and colouring tasks. But my favourite is a cookbook with a recipe how to make a...
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How to Make Xylophone Using Water

Pre-K - 8th
Can you make music with water? Just pour water into jars or glasses. Each bottle has diferent volume of water in it, that is what makes it sound differently.
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How to Make Simple a Secret Decoder

Pre-K - 8th
People have been using codes throughout history to keep their messages private and my two little spies needed a way to sent their secret messages to each other too. So I came up with this simple paper plate decoder for them to have fun.
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How to Make a Lung Model with a Balloon

Pre-K - 8th
Here is a quick demonstration how lungs work with a plastic bottle and two balloons I have prepared for Alex. When we pull knotted balloon, more space inside the bottle is created. To fill that space more air is sucked in thru the red...
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How to Make Santa Footprints for Kids at Christmas

Pre-K - 8th
We have done this last Christmas and children’s excitement to Santa’s snowy footprints was so rewarding. You just need to spray water on the sole of the boots. Press the wet boot into the tray of baking powder and then press the boot...
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How to Make Drawings Float with a Magic Water Marker

Pre-K - 8th
Subscribe to my channel and wait for Alex’s space adventure floating drawing! To make your art creation float you need just white board makers, a plate and some water. I have seen a few videos about this technique but they all seemed to...
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How to Make Colours Appear from Words

Pre-K - 8th
How cool is this activity with magically appearing colours from words! You would need regular markers, a permanent black marker, paper towel and water.
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How to Make Butter

Pre-K - 8th
We were making fresh butter for lunch with Max. The process was really simple and fun. All we needed was heavy/double/whipping cream, a glass jar and a bit of muscle to shake! In about 10 minutes we could see buttermilk separating from...
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How to Make a Tornado in a Bottle

Pre-K - 8th
It’s an experiment time! We have connected two bottles with a tube but you can just connect them with a tape, just make sure you put a metal washer between bottles to make the hole smaller. Spinning the top bottle in a circular motion...
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How to Make a Marble Run with Foil

Pre-K - 8th
This DIY toy is from the time I was a child. It is simple but it could blow the mind a person who doesn't know how it is made. Alex was looking for magnets to explain why it moves that way. All you need to make one is a piece of kitchen...
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How to Make a Paper Duck Call

Pre-K - 8th
Here is a quick tutorial for making a simple duck call form a piece of paper.
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Fine Motor Skills Activity: Nuts and Bolts

Pre-K - 8th
Nuts and bolts aren’t something you would first think to offer your kid to play with. But they are great for developing fine motor skills and just super fun.
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How to Make a Balancing Butterfly

Pre-K - 8th
We have made a butterfly with Max from a piece of hard paper that can balance on a tip of a pencil. Now Max is looking for magnets to explain why it doesn't fall.
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How to Build with Sponge Scourers

Pre-K - 8th
We are presenting a pack of sponge scourers! It could be one the most fun open-ended toy a child can borrow from the kitchen It is compatible with any other toys as well as other household items to combine in an incredible imaginative...
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Science Experiment: How Clouds Hold Water

Pre-K - 8th
Max is learning the very basic concept of how clouds hold water and when they become too heavy it starts to rain, while practising fine motor skills and eye–hand coordination. For this activity we used clear water, shaving foam and...
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Science Experiment: Hot and Cold Air

Pre-K - 8th
Heating up the air inside a plastic bottle with hot water and then cooling it down with cold to see how balloon reacts.
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DIY Halloween Craft: Ghost on Hovercraft

Pre-K - 8th
Meet our new spooky friend for coming Halloween. I glued a sports cap to the center of CD, closed the pop-top and fitted the neck of the balloon over the moving part of the cap. When I am ready to let my ghost to hover, I put it on a...
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Gel Balls Activities for Toddlers and Preschoolers

Pre-K - 8th
If clear gel balls are submerged in water, you cannot see them. It is how Alex did his trick in the previous video and it is what makes this activity so fun for Max.
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Scissors Activity: Haircuts

Pre-K - 8th
This is simple and fun cutting activity for preschoolers or toddlers. Using scissors a child can make different haircuts.
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Science Experiments for Understanding Density

Pre-K - 8th
We are observing the different densities of the liquids (coloured water, honey and oil) versus the different densities of the objects (marble, grape, legobrick and foam cube).
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Exploring Black Markers with Chromatography

Pre-K - 8th
We are using a scientific method called chromatography to see what colours have been used by different manufacturers to make their black markers. Surprisingly black colour hides a bunch of bright colours. To take the experiment a bit...